Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — Republicans Attention. [ARTICLE]

Republicans Attention.

In accordance with a call of the Republican State Central Committee, the republicans of the several townships of Jasper county and all who wish to co-operate with them will meet at the usual place of township meetings in their respective townships, on „ . Saturday, January 11th, 1890, at 2 o’clock r. M. for the transac- ■ tioffof the foliowiHgbusiness: First. Elect from each voting precinct a member of the county central committee. The committeemen so chosen will meet in the office of M. F. Chilcote, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, Jan. 18, 1890, at 2 o’clock p. m., and elect the usual officers and an executive committee of three or five members. Second. Elect delegates and alternate delegates to attend a district convention of the 10th congressional district to be held at Hammond on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1890. The different townships will be entitled to delegates as follows: Barkley. a ..... 1 Marion 3 Carpenter 2 Mi1r0y...... 1 Gillam.. 1 Newton..... .1 Hanging Grove 1 Union 1 J0rdan........ 1 • Walker...... 1 Kankakee 1 Wheatfield.. 1 Keener 1 Total 16 The business of the convention at Hammond will be to . elect a member of the State Central Committee for the Tenth Congressional District. M. F. Chilcote, Chairman of Jasper Co. Rep. C. C. G. E. Marshall, Secy. The Supreme court of New York has made its final decision on the constitutionality of the electrical execution law, to the effect that the law is valid, in the case of one Kemmler, a convicted wife murderer from Buffalo.

The long article from the pen of our young student friend, S. E. Sparling, which we republish from the Indiana Student, will be read with pleasure and gratification by _ talented young man’s many personal friends, among our readers, and with profit by all. It is a well written article, full of sound thought and instructive information. Jasper county Republicans are again reminded of the call for the first organizing conventions of the great campaign for the redemption of Indiana from the misrule of Gerrymander injustice. There i 8 nothing so important as a right start, in everything, and a right start in this case, will be a general turning out of Republicans to these meetings, and the selection in each township and precinct, of the most reliable, discreet and active man in each, for township committee man. At a meeting of the American Geological Society, in New York, Prof. Orton, State Geologist of Ohio, exposed the fallacy of the idea that natural gas is an inexhaustible fountain of fuel, and that it is a substance constantly being produced in nature’s laboratory, as fast as it is withdrawn. He not

only holds that it will be exhausted eventually, but says that at the present prodigal rate of consumption, the Ohio fields will be used up in a very few I years. This is only a plain, common-sense view. Natural gas, of the usual inflammable character, is, without doubt, a product of organic substances, either animal or vegetable, produced after the analogy of coal and petroleum, and, like those substances, the supply in any given locality must be limited, by the very nature of things. It would be just a s rational to suppose that a bed of coal could be inexhaustible and self reproducing as to think the same of a deposit of natural gas.